RYDER SYSTEM, INC. v. DAVIS

No. 3D08-1447.

997 So.2d 1133 (2008)

RYDER SYSTEM, INC., a Florida corporation, and Ryder Integrated Logistics, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Appellants, v. Thomas Jeffrey DAVIS and Judy K. Davis, his wife, individually and as parents, natural guardians, and next friends of Jeffrey Scott Davis, Thomas Brett Davis, and Jenna Elise Davis, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 6, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco & Di-Matteo and Greg M. Gaebe, Coral Gables, for appellants.

Don Russo; Elizabeth K. Russo, Miami, for appellees.

Before COPE, CORTIÑAS, and LAGOA, JJ.


COPE, J.

This is an appeal of an order denying a motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.061. We write to address this court's standard of review of orders granting or denying such a motion.

The standard of review is abuse of discretion. That is the standard stated in Kinney System, Inc. v. Continental Insurance Co., 674 So.2d 86, 90-92 (Fla.1996), and is the standard of...

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